Amid a backdrop of tension and war, a baby's innocent wail echoes through the blackt-draped hospital walls in star contrast to the air-raid sirens. A researcher studying mother-child bonding is perhaps the only witness to what happens next, though he won't know it until seventeen years later, when the magnitude of a nurse's careless error becomes eminently, dreadfully clear. What will be with the two babies who, unknown to their mothers, were mistakenly switched on that fateful day in the wartorn hospital? Can they make sense of the jarring dissonance in their lives? Can they discover their true identities and find where they really belong? Can the wrong be righted? This is a moving story of upheaval and loss, of hope and rebuilding, where true-to-life characters struggle to rise above their challenges and stay the course on a difficult journey through life